Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of Lia Lee‚ a Hmong child with epilepsy‚ whose tragic downfall reveals the dangers of a lack of cross-cultural communication in the medical profession. At the age of three months‚ Lia had her first seizure caused by the sound of a door being slammed shut‚ by her older sister Yer. Their parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believed that the sound of the door had caused Lia’s soul to flee‚ they called her illness “qaug dab peg”‚ which means “the spirit catches you and
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Are you happy with yourself? I honestly cannot imagine living in a house‚ in a society where I have not been encouraged to be the best in all things I do. I honestly cannot imagine my mother helping me with my homework‚ my father getting me a tutor in maths. I honestly cannot imagine my family constantly telling me to work hard for what I want. I honestly cannot imagine being encouraged to be the best in all things I do. Unfortunately‚ not everyone is encouraged to achieve what might be deemed
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SOUL MATES: HOW WILL WE FIND THEM? “Have we ever met before?”‚ “You look familiar”‚ and “I think I know you” these lines are often spoke to someone you felt a sudden strong connection. According to theosophy‚ humans were androgynous- equally male and female. However‚ when humans incurred karma they were separated into a man and a woman. After all karmic debt are purged‚ the two unites and returns to the ultimate. This explains that each soul seeks its own better halves. Greek legend says that
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In the 1960s‚ when Oates wrote “Where Are You Going . . . ‚” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men‚ and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men‚ women questioned their role
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True Meaning “Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home”(1369)‚ this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with
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How Can You Help the Earth to Survive? Try to imagine living in a world where weather conditions‚ like hail the size of oranges or hurricanes with unseen wind force‚ are reality. In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”‚ scenes with disastrous weather conditions like the one mentioned above‚ are shown as a result of greenhouse effect and global warming‚ if they continue to increase. Fortunately‚ what the movie shows us is not very realistic‚ and the outrageous weather conditions are most likely never
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Vietnam‚ a war that ended in 1975 was a war about the prolonged struggles between the nationalists forces that were trying to attempt the unification of Vietnam as a country under a government of communism and the United States attempting to delay or stop the spread of communism. To the Americans‚ this war seemed pointless and the Americans saw that there was no way of winning so the government lost the support for this uncalled war. In "The Things They Carried‚" Tim O’Brien wrote a novella about
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“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚” tells a story about a Hmong child Lia Lee‚ who suffers her first epileptic seizure at three months of age. Her treatment becomes difficult to go through because of her parents‚ Nao Kao and Foua‚ inability to speak English. They cannot speak to the doctors and many problems follow because of it. It started when Lia was three months old when her sister had slammed the front door. Quickly after‚ “Lia’s eyes rolled up‚ her arms jerked over her head‚ and she
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summarizing various tax issues 1. John Smith ’s tax issues: Issue a) How is the $300‚000 treated for purposes of federal tax income? Applicable Law & Analysis: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/selfemployed/index.html Conclusion: The $300‚000 will be treated as self- employed income. Generally you are self-employed if you carry on a trade or business as a sole proprietor‚ independent contractor‚ or if you are a member of a partnership. Self-employed individuals are required to file
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Paraparaan Lang Yan: How will I make My Crush Like Me using Classical Conditioning? Coming from a girl with no first-hand experience with making a crush like her‚ it would be hard to think of ways on how to make a person like you. Making a person like you‚ as a friend‚ might be easy and it comes with learning to be honest‚ to understand‚ and be there for that person both in happy and hard times. But making your crush like you? I think it’s really hard considering the fact that you (well‚ in my case
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